Cult Tell Killing Joke: Get Your House In Order

The Cult are deliberately avoiding saying much about the recent jibes at them attributed to Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman.

Posted on Aug 24, 2012 01:39 pm

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The Cult are deliberately avoiding saying much about the recent jibes at them attributed to Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman.
And Ian Astbury says his band are allowing time for Coleman's outfit to get their house in order.
Controversy erupted in July after a post appeared on KJ's Facebook page ahead of the band's planned tour with the Cult and the Mission.
The announcement, soon deleted, said: "It gives me great pleasure to announce the cancellation of the upcoming gigs. Playing with The Cult never appealed to me in the first place. They clearly have no integrity (they refer to their hometown as LA)."
The band quickly distanced themselves from the statement, and said that Coleman had gone AWOL. He re-appeared a fortnight later, claiming he hadn't been missing and promoting new projects in the same announcement, leading to anger from fans who suspected it had all been a publicity stunt.
KJ said they were hopeful of repairing relations with the Cult, while Coleman insisted it would be impossible to appear on the UK tour with them.
Now Astbury tells Music Nerd: "We made a decision to try to let everything settle before we say what we want to say.
Apparently, the webmaster from Killing Joke's website wrote the statement on their behalf. The band immediately issued an apology.
Jaz wasn't even in the country when all of this went down. But the fact is, people are taking sides, nobody cares about Jaz Coleman and nobody cares about Ian Astbury. It's easy to get caught up in the triviality of it all.
For now, I will tell you we've given Killing Joke the opportunity to get their house in order. I have friends that are friends with Jaz, and so I felt it was right to offer a little cultural diplomacy."
The UK tour dates, which start on September 10, still advertise KJ as the third act on the bill.
Thanks to Classicrockmagazine for the report.